What's your favorite CL leadout wire?

Rusty, my choice would be the Sullivan C-D leadout wire. That wire is extremely flexible and really stands up to the job. The downside is the wire has many strands.It's a bit pricy as well but you do get a quality cable. The cable can come unwrapped when cut or ground with a grinder which can be problematic to stop unwrapping. Once terminated, all is good. Brodak leadout wire seems to be quite stiff and is hard to work with especially when trying to use crimp tubes. It works well however. Lately I have been using a reel of Sig .027 flying wire. Tom Morris provides some of the finest wire and control systems in the hobby.

In terms of pull, the plane should be pulling but not that extreme. Remember, the weakest ling is going to fail first and your line diameter is only .015's. The breaking strength of .015's are in and around 55-65 lbs. That's quite a bit and I certainly don't forsee you breaking them. When we fly combat, our flying line is our leadout line which due to the abuse we put them through are required to use .018's for .25 size models regardless of weight. What will break a line is if the plane flies across the circle or gets blown out of a maneuver and you jerk the lines trying to regain control. That jerk can instantly snap a line. We don't use leadouts on our combat equipment and the lines attach directly to the bellcrank via buttons on the bellcranks and loops on the flying lines. No mechanical fasteners hold the lines to the plane as line tension does this for us. These models are slightly lighter but for the most part finish at or around 24 oz's. the speeds are not to exceed 75 MPH. Ken